Silent Night — and Day — for Illegal Immigrants

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Chief Bixby

Air raids sounded and screams threatened organs of hearing last November when President Trump was elected.

In normally quiescent, sedate Culver City, you could hear a bomb drop over the din that raised fears of illegal immigrants vanishing via instant, noiseless deportation.

The crowd of hometown protesters was quelled by the Police Dept.’s hands-off policy and the City Council’s declaration of sanctuary city status six weeks ago.

No one seems to know how many immigrants without papers reside in Culver City.

Whatever the number, none has been in trouble.

Police Chief Scott Bixby reported yesterday that nothing has changed from Nov. 9, the day after the election.

Typically, immigration-oriented interviews with the chief have been abbreviated.

“The only uptick,” he said wryly, “has been in dialogue.

“As far as action in our city, no, nothing has changed.”

Mr. Bixby said the Council’s decision to confer sanctuary status on the community was a symbolic gesture.

“We still don’t have a definition of what a sanctuary city is,” he said.

“I don’t think that the Council’s decision has had any impact” on the illegal immigrant population.

“Nothing has changed from before,” the chief said.

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